rbnyc (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-05-11 04:14 PM
Poll question: Check in here if you are going to help occupy DC in October or if you're not...
http://october2011.org <---this is the great organizing link!
QuoteInspired by the courageous, nonviolent uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Greece, Spain, and elsewhere, people in the United States have come together to form the October2011 Movement. This fusion of peace, social justice, environmental, student, and immigrant rights organizations is in solidarity with all who seek a peaceful, just, and sustainable future and stands ready to engage in its own campaign of nonviolent resistance beginning in Washington, D.C., this October.QuoteIt Can Be Done. Now is the Time. Americans Can Stop the Corporate Machine and Create a New World.
I have taken the pledge of nonviolence. I am starting to plan, trying to figure out how I can get there and how long I can stay.
I am not in good health. I have very little money. I am the primary earner for my family. I have a child.
I am also largely responsible for the fiscal survival of a small, local not-for-profit.
I, like many people, have a lot of excuses for not going to DC indefinitely.
Still, my choices are to do nothing or to figure what I can do and do that. I will stay as long as I can and I will bring as many people with me as I can.
Will you be there?
If you want to go “all in†but have reservations, fears, seemingly insurmountable obstacles, how do you feel about that? If you are going “all in,†how do you feel about those who will stay for a few days, and then go back to work and keep trying to feed their kids or pay their mortgage, or otherwise hold on to whatever there is to hold on to while you stick it out?
Poll result (14 votes)
I will be there and I will stay for as long as it takes. (0 votes, 0%) Vote
I will be there and I will stay for as long as I can. (5 votes, 36%) Vote
I will be there and I will stay for as long as I can even if it means losing my job or home. (0 votes, 0%) Vote
I will not be there but I will do what I can to support the movement. (7 votes, 50%) Vote
I will not be there and there's nothing I can do. (0 votes, 0%) Vote
I will not be there because I don't think it's useful or important. (2 votes, 14%) Vote
Other (0 votes, 0%) Vote
Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-05-11 04:21 PM
1. I would love to come,
but it's very expensive to fly from Alaska to DC.
http://northernvisions.smugmug.com
proud patriot (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-05-11 04:22 PM
Response to Reply #1
2. I'm in the same boat from California
Ruby the Liberal (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-05-11 04:33 PM
3. I can't plan that far in advance right now
But will put a note in my calendar to remind myself in the offchance I can go.
Thanks for the heads up!
We all do better when we all do better - Paul Wellstone
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjXARZDKdHk&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]they are a movemt!
You have got to see this...its a laugh riot.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjXARZDKdHk&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
You have got to see this...its a laugh riot.
Oh, And for a bunch of you folks in the video...(http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Colgate-triple-action.jpg)
Algore has called for an "Arab Spring" in America. He was on Keith's show the other day blathering about it. I get the impression that he and other leftards are trying to gin up a commie version of the TEA party movement. But Algore is no Rick Santelli, it will be interesting to see how much play this will get and if it shows up on anything other than Current TV.Yeah, this is a lefty wet dream. Revolution, bypassing the steps of democracy.
Yeah, this is a lefty wet dream. Revolution, bypassing the steps of democracy.
Problem....We are not oppressed by a dictator. There is no groundswell of support.
If there was an arab spring it would be a Tea Party revolution against democrat oppression. Here we have Al Gore asking Rats to revolt against...Rats.